What occurs to me is to think about all the prototyping necessary to make dies that mashed the stay just right, accounting for spring-back, variations in material properties, etc. Like myself when bending this stuff, I wonder if they shoot for slightly over bent, and "set" it back from there?

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The cheap way to do things is to have an expensive machine do the work. My guess is that the expensive machine is cheaper on a per tube cost as compared to humans provided you have enough volume to justify the equipment.

I'm torn. The Mori is awesome. Using it for mitering tubes makes me cry, but hey, whatever blows their hair back. But what I really can't understand is rubbing their way through parts like this, I mean holyfukkin'changethecutterandfigureoutyourspeeds&f eeds, Batman!

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Its actually not that expensive. 250k is what you would expect to pay for a non taiwanese high quality machine. The japanese machines love you looong time, thats what you pay for.

that machine seemed to be the EXACT right tool for the job. but you could do almost the same thing with a cheap 3axis (+ indexed active 4 axis roundtable) mill.
Around here 3 axis machines with no tool magazine is practically free. cheaper than manual mills because nobody wants them.

also laser?? I was at this place applying for a job, they mostly did laser, and to be honest, lasered thin sheet looks like hell. jagged wavy edges, yuck.
Waterjet cut tubes would probably look a lot better, if they are that thin.

You wanna see some badass machines? look into Citizen's swiss lathes or whatever they call them, these are ultrahigh precision machines used in watchmanufacturing, and they have live tools and live spindles coming from every god damn direction you can think of.

I prefer milling machines though, and preferably Heidenhein, its ****ing awesome. Especially when working multiaxis (4 or more) jobs, since you can still easily program this in the machine, as opposed to iso/fanuc crapola (imo), well it goes faster for me at least.

anyway very nice vid!, thats how its done, to 0,01mm tolerance

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I'm torn. The Mori is awesome. Using it for mitering tubes makes me cry, but hey, whatever blows their hair back. But what I really can't understand is rubbing their way through parts like this, I mean holyfukkin'changethecutterandfigureoutyourspeeds&f eeds, Batman!

Yeah i agree, looks like A lot of overlapping cuts there, to no use at all. Execpt for wearing out tools as fast as possible.

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